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Bachelet urges countries to secure treaty´s entry into force

UN Women Executive Director Michelle
Bachelet welcomes the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating
Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and urges Member States to move towards
securing the Treaty’s Entry into Force

UN Women
welcomes the Convention’s comprehensive and integrated approach, paying
attention to services and support women require and in response to violence;
while also dedicating attention to the importance of prevention.

On official
mission to Turkey, the Executive Director, Ms. Bachelet also took the
opportunity to acknowledge the leadership of the Government of Turkey, whose
representatives were instrumental in the process of adopting the Convention.

Ms. Bachelet
said in a declaration that she knew first-hand from South-America how a
comparable treaty, the Convention of Belem do Para 1994, had proven
groundbreaking. “It was path breaking, (has proven) its value and impact for
the betterment of the lives of women and their communities across Latin
America.”

The Belem do
Para treaty is the only other regional treaty in the world dedicated to ending
the global pandemic of violence against women.

Ms. Bachelet
promised the active support of UN Women to the Council of Europe to achieve the
“immediate objective” of the convention:

“I am sure the new CoE Convention will be
important in the lives of women of Europe. This is why I urge the signatories
of the Convention to move towards early ratification, so that the treaty’s
entry into force can be secured. UN Women stands ready to support the Council
of Europe and its Member States achieve this immediate objective.”

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